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The debate about same-sex marriage brings the modern liberal project to a point of clarity. If marriage can be reshaped to accommodate same-sex couples, then there is nothing that the modern liberal state cannot redefine to serve its own purposes.
A few weeks ago, Sherif Girgis, Robert P. George, and Ryan T. Anderson published an important article in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy defending the traditional view of marriage: What is Marriage? The article stirred up responses from some law professors. After all, one key assumption of liberal jurisprudence in this area is that there can be no rational basis for resisting the efforts to redefine marriage to encompass same-sex relationships. By this way of thinking, the traditional view of marriage simply reflects old prejudices and outdated historical practices.
At Public Discourse , the web journal run by the Witherspoon Institute, Girgis, George, and Anderson have posted a series of replies to criticisms, the most interesting of which came from the Northwestern law professor Andrew Koppleman.
Heres the way Girgis, George, and Anderson put the thrust of Kopplemans disagreement: Against our view that marriage is a pre-political form of relationship (albeit one that the state has compelling reasons to support and regulate), Koppelman holds that marriage is merely a social and legal construction"the pure product of conventions.
Whatever one thinks of the morality of homosexual acts or the role of same-sex relationships in society, this contrast strikes me as telling. Most who defend traditional marriage hold that our body of law should recognize the reality of marriage, while liberals tend to take the view that our legal system creates the institution of marriage, and therefore can reshape and recreate it as the democratic majority (or in this case a judicially empowered minority) sees fit.
In this distinction between recognizing and creating we can see the fundamental metaphysical question at stake in the same-sex marriage debate. Are there any stable and authoritative social realities"such as marriage"prior to or more fundamental than the legal artifacts created by the modern liberal state? Or is the Leviathan of the modern state the singular source of social reality?
Rousseau had a gift for bold theoretical reflections. He recognized that the modern notion of equality, if made substantive, would require absorbing social reality into two distinct and interrelated domains"the individual will of each citizen and the collective will of society as a whole. This way of thinking has led to the two-source theory of legitimacy that predominates in modern liberalism: Social realities merit respect and recognition if and only if they are based on either the individual will or the will of the majority as reflected in the decisions of a democratic state.
The result of this two-source theory has been the slow erosion of the independent legitimacy of social institutions that fall in between the individual and the state. As Rousseau recognized, inherited social forms inevitably mediate between the individual and the collective by differentiating between individuals and assigning to us a variety of roles. Some are tinkers, others tailors, and still others candlestick makers. Some are priests, others laymen. Some are professors, others students. Moreover, a single person plays many roles. Im father to my children, but not the neighborhood kids, and so forth.
All these differentiated roles create a variegated system, which of its nature is defined by inequalities. I dont treat my children the same way as I treat other children, nor do I relate to my colleagues in the same fashion as to my students.
The inherent inequalities in this differentiated system of social roles has always troubled modern liberalism. As a result, liberalism has tended to redefine our social roles in terms of either individual choices that are protected by the modern state by way of civil rights, or as patterns of behavior mandated by the democratic process"taxation, military conscription, criminal and regulatory laws, and so forth. The two sources of legitimacy take over, and were left with a realm of individual choices and the political domain of government-enforced social cooperation.
At least since Edmund Burke, modern political theorists have expressed reservations about the impoverishing consequences of liberal two-source theory. Alexis de Tocqueville thought that a genuinely liberal society needs mediating institutions, which is to say social realities not reducible downward to individual choice or upward to political power, for these mediating institutions fend off the absorptive tendencies of the isolated ego and the all-powerful state. They allow us to enjoy forms of solidarity that are not political in the narrow sense of being creations of the state, and therefore subject to democratic contest and debate.
I am opposed to same-sex marriage for moral and theological reasons, some of which Girgis, George, and Anderson spell out in their defense of traditional marriage. But my opposition also stems from the modern conservative insight into the importance of mediating institutions for sustaining a liberal society (in contradistinction to a liberal theory, which cant do the job).
Freedom does not entail doing as we please"a fantasy we can never realize. Political or social freedom means having opportunities for consequential personal decisions that allow us to define our lives in some significant way, not on our own terms"another fantasy"but in terms of truths greater than ourselves. For this to happen we need a complex array of authorities, institutions, practices, and forms of life that we do not create but instead recognize, weigh, balance, and decide between.
This finite freedom"the only kind we can have"is threatened by the liberal, two-source theory of legitimacy, for such a view empowers the sovereign will of the individual and its would-be servant, the all-powerful modern state. We imagine that we can create the defining contours of our lives, in this case redefining marriage to make it a more plastic instrument for individuals to use as they see fit. This fantasy undermines the social conditions for achieving a genuine self-possession, which requires navigating amidst lasting truths that we cannot create but must recognize.
Here we see the historical pattern of liberalism . Modern liberalism has refused to recognize many dimensions of traditional society: old guild prerogatives, inherited social castes, racial segregation, and so forth. In each case, liberalism has used the power of the state to create new conditions for human beings to enter into economic and social relationships according to their own desires rather than being governed by pre-established social categories and roles. In each case, liberalism has argued that the old patterns were never properly authoritative, but were instead unjust mechanisms for one group to dominate another group.
Some of these liberal refusals to recognize inherited forms of life and the determined efforts to use to power of the state create anew have undoubtedly been for the best. But the modern conservative has always wondered: When will it stop?
Burke worried never. The same-sex marriage debate suggests that he was right. Of course the practice of marriage has varied a great deal throughout human history. But the union of men and women for the purposes of forming a family unit"which is to say the traditional institution of marriage in all its variety"stands alongside religious forms of solidarity as the most fundamental and primeval mode of social organization available to the human species. If, as Koppleman and other liberal legal theorists forthrightly affirm, the modern liberal state can do with this fundamental institution as it wishes, then it seems to me that there is nothing the modern liberal state cannot redefine, reshape, or reinvent.
Creating and never recognizing"its a vision of political life that fills me with foreboding. After all, the human person, like the institution of marriage, is (thank God) pre-political, to be respected not remolded, recognized rather than subjected to redefinition.
But just as liberal theory so easily takes up and refashions marriage, I fear that an imperial liberalism will soon be underwriting a redefinition of parenthood and reproduction"the very origins of the human person and thus the inner fabric of our humanity. Not a happy future.
R.R. Reno is a senior editor of First Things and Professor of Theology at Creighton University. He is the general editor of the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible and author of the volume on Genesis . His previous On the Square articles can be found here .
Girgis, Anderson, and George. What Is Marriage? Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy .
Andrew Koppelman. What Marriage Isnt Balkinization
Girgis, Anderson, and George. Marriage: Merely a Social Construct? Public Discourse
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Egypt switches off the internet
The server at www.egypt.gov.eg is taking too long to respond
The Egyptian government is restricting internet access and mobile phone coverage ahead of what are expected to be the week's largest demonstrations later today.
As this blogpost from Renesys notes the website for the Egyptian Stock Exchange might be available, but little else is. European-Asian fibre-optics appear unaffected but: "Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air."
Renesys said it watched the plug being pulled at 12.34am Egyptian time leaving almost all Egyptian websites isolated. Even Egyptian government sites are unavailable at the time of writing.
Mobile phone networks have also been interfered with and opposition politicians and members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been arrested, according to reports.
After a week of protests against Hosni Mubarak, which have left seven people dead, the government is facing its hardest test today. Big protests are expected across the country after Friday prayers - still the most important social network in the country.
Egypt has a population of 80.4 million, it has 10.3 million landlines, 55.3 million mobile phones and 20.1 million internet users, according to figures from the CIA World Fact Book. ®

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Compete has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it used its Web-tracking software to collect personal data without disclosing the extent of its information-gathering activities, and failed to honor promises it made to protect the personal data it collected.
Under the settlement, Compete must obtain consumers' express consent before collecting any data. It also must delete or anonymize the consumer data it already has collected. Finally, Compete will have to provide directions to consumers for uninstalling its software, and implement a comprehensive information security program with independent third-party audits every two years for 20 years.
Compete and the FTC did not respond to our requests for further details.
'Join Now'
Compete used several different methods to get consumers to download its tracking software, the FTC said. One way was to urge them to join a "Consumer Input Panel," promising they could win rewards while sharing opinions about products and services.
Once installed, the tracking component operated in the background, automatically collecting information about consumers' online activity, including usernames, passwords and search terms, along with sensitive information such as credit card and financial account information, security codes and expiration dates, and Social Security Numbers, according to the FTC.
Compete promised that anyone who installed its Compete Toolbar could have instant access to data about the websites they visited, the FTC alleged. It also assured consumers that their personal information would be removed from the data it collected, but it did not follow through on that promise.
The FTC also charged that Compete licensed its Web-tracking software to other companies, such as Upromise, which settled similar FTC charges earlier this year.
Tough Terms
The FTC settlement did not mention a financial penalty, but Klemchuk Kubasta attorney Casey Griffith noted that Google settled a similar case with the agency for $20 million, "which was a drop in the bucket for a company of Google's size."
If there are financial penalties for Compete, they probably pale in comparison to the other terms of the agreement, Griffith told the E-Commerce Times. "For a company whose business model is to collect information from consumers and sell it, being required to get consumers' express permission is very onerous."
The other terms no doubt are equally from Compete's perspective, Griffith added. "Having to submit to a third-party audit for the next 20 years is onerous."
A Crackdown
The FTC is increasingly pursuing companies for "unfair and deceptive trade practices, noted Marilyn Prosch, an associate professor at Arizona State's W.P. Carey School of Business.
"These are not new rules, but the trend is to crack down on companies that surreptitiously collect personal information," she told the E-Commerce Times.
In general, businesses that respect consumers' privacy without the prodding of the government will go further to gain consumers' respect, Prosch observed. However, while "privacy by default is an expectation in most other large countries, we often need to be reminded here in the U.S."
A Warning Sign
Compete's terms will likely serve as a warning to other companies that may be guilty of similar practices.
"It is a lesson for companies to be careful in handling consumers' information," said Klemchuk Kubasta's Griffith.
It also is a reminder of how easy it is for a company to become the focus of negative publicity, he added. "No company wants to be in the news because it has been accused of privacy violations."


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Luz is from Lima and met her husband Marco Antonio when she was studying in Huancayo, a valley in the mountains of Perú. Her husband worked originally in metals, making home accessories, and with this experience they were able to move to Lima and start working in making jewelry with alpaca metal, bronze, and Peruvian stones. In the 1970s they made jewelry for backpacker travelers to Peru and slowly learned more about the business. Luz remembers that in the beginning it was very hard because she had to knock on doors to sell her products and she wasn't always received in such a welcoming way. But slowly they made contacts and were able to sell more steadily to people with clients in other countries, including Minga Fair Trade Imports.
They currently have a workshop with 10 workers, and work in conjunction with six additional artisan families who work from their homes. Many members of Luz's family are in the business and they are known for their organization and strong word to finish orders on time.
Luz and her family also have a store in Lima where they sell their jewelry. In particular, Luz's daughter Sandra attends to clients at the store and works in the administrative aspect of the family business. Further, Sandra enjoys traveling to other countries in Latin America to sell her products to clients who aren't able to travel and buy directly in Perú.
Luz lives with her four children in Lima: Christian is 32 years old, Sandra is 28, Fiorella is 22, and Leonardo is 9 years old. Luz comments that "I love my job, it is my way to deal with stress and get away from everything." In particular, Luz is happy that she is able to provide so many jobs to artisans around Lima and likes to share what she can with them: "The little that I can earn, I share with the artisans." She further says, "I hope that my children stay with this" because she has put her life into this business so that her children can learn and carry on with the business that she and her husband have built up from nothing.


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I've been traveling like a madblogger, so forgive me if I missed something, but I've looked around a little, and it looks like no one has commented on this astonishing quote from Paul Wells from a couple of weeks back:
I have long been a (fairly quiet) advocate of private, for-profit, two-tier, American-style, dance-on-Tommy-Douglas'-grave-style health care, on the simple principle that if something is important you should be allowed to buy it.If something is important, you should be allowed to buy it. Think about that. This means that if Wells had his way, the wealthiest among us would all be purchasing air, specific mountain ranges, human relationships, children, and success. Not to mention elections. Oh, wait a minute.
I adore Wells' writing, so it pains me to have to class him with Lyle Oberg, but come on, that one's right up there with "No one should have the ability to make anyone do anything against their will."


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[Andy] sent in his 'Network Something' hack. For his proof of concept, he used a parallel port printer network adapter to create a set of network controllable LEDs. The virtual printer was implemented with a set of shift registers and a set of nand gates. (and a power regulator). Old print servers can be had pretty cheap – my HP $8 on ebay. Definitely an interesting way to get inexpensive network control of your projects.
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Day Made! Watch the Original Australian Company of The Boy from Oz 'Go to Rio'
June 17th, 2020 | By Lindsey Sullivan
The Boy from Oz, which tells the story of the life of singer-songwriter Peter Allen, premiered in Australia in 1998. The musical went on to play Broadway in 2003 and won Hugh Jackman a Tony Award. The original Australian cast has united to raise spirits with the upbeat number "I Go to Rio." Those who view the video are encouraged to donate to The Actors Benevolent Fund of New South Wales. Shake your maracas to the performance below!


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Kath Pinnock gets House of Lords seat
Cleckheaton councillor Kath Pinnock has been elevated to the House of Lords.
The former leader of Kirklees Council, who lives in Peaseland Close will take her seat alongside such luminaries as Alan Sugar and Michael Hesseltine in the UK's highest level of government.
She is one of six new Liberal Democrat peers announced today by party leader Nick Clegg.


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Maybe he should rename the tour The [Extended] Life of Pablo.
Kanye West announced 21 additional dates to his Saint Pablo tour on Tuesday. The tour was initially set to wrap up on Nov. 2 in Los Angeles. However, West canceled a number of shows in Philadelphia and Detroit after his wife, Kim Kardashian West, was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. West cut his performance short in New York after finding out about the incident, when he cited a "family emergency."
Now the extended tour dates now have West wrapping up on New Year's Eve in Brooklyn, New York. Other cities added to the extension include Dallas, Denver, Orlando, Boston and Washington DC, in addition to the rescheduled dates in Philadelphia and Detroit.
You can purchase tickets for the extended dates beginning Saturday. American Express presale began Wednesday morning at 10 am.


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Engaging video about the Curzon Memories App, a practice-research project
by Charlotte Crofts, funded by the Digital Cultures Research Centre and
the University of the West of England. The video was made by Sy Taffel.
My thinking about locative media as a means of exploring screen heritage is informed by the "apparatus theorists" of the 1970s (Baudry, Comolli, Heath, Metz, Mulvey, Wollen, all collected in Philip Rosen's seminal collection Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Reader, 1972), who were interested in the cinematic apparatus both in terms of the equipment of production and projection and in terms of the conditions of spectatorship (the engaged spectator in a darkened communal auditorium). At the [Curzon Memories App] project's heart is a concern with both the culture and technologies of seeing: how we might use new screen media as a lens through which to understand the old cinematic apparatus and in turn historicise the new media. The idea is to use locative media to add depth to the everyday architecture of the cinema beyond that which is immediately apparent, and so enhance visitors' experience and understanding of the cinema and the collection. In this sense, the project is centrally concerned with the interface between cultural memory and the technological imaginary of the moving image. [from Charlotte Crofts, 'Technologies of Seeing the Past: The Curzon Memories App', Paper published in the proceedings of the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London 2011 pp. 163-4]
One of the cinemas cited [in David Bordwell's recent post about the threat of digital conversion to art house cinemas] is the Art House Cinema, in Champaign-Urbana, a University town in the middle of corn fields in the mid-West (where I happened to live for a short spell [...]) [...]. I think it might be where I first saw Terence Mallick's Days of Heaven as a girl of nine, and have been haunted by it ever since. This, combined with my involvement with the Curzon, and indeed the Whiteladies Picture House campaign, made me feel how urgent it is to preserve screen heritage beyond the conservation of the films themselves – which is in itself incredibly important – but there's something rather pressing about preserving the cinema-going experience in today's multi-screen world: the apparatus of cinema, the built environment, the technologies; which is at the heart of the Curzon Memories App, and Projection Hero in particular. [Charlotte Crofts, '', The Curzon Project, January 31, 2012]
I hadn't really thought I was making a documentary the whole time I was developing the app, but with hindsight, my experience as a filmmaker couldn't help but inform the project and trying to articulate my work [...] really helped me to see that 'experience design' is essentially an extension of documentary practice – we all want to move people and make them see the world differently – I'm just excited about doing that in the actual place you are interested in exploring. [Charlotte Crofts, 'Curzon Memories App as interactive documentary', The Curzon Project, April 12, 2012]
[I]t is quite clear that printed works of reference are a thing of the past. I do not here mean, of course, the polders of misinformation contained in the poorly triangulated written texts of Wikipedia: rather I have in mind the breathtaking and illuminating elegance of Touch Publications and Charlotte Croft's 'Geo-spatial, Geo-temporal' app to guide a tourist around a physical site. Why slap a guide-book around when your phone will tell you everything you could possibly want to know about what you are looking at. This will not destroy the publishing, on whatever platform, of unenhanced alphanumeric texts but it surely must transform the presentation of printed information. (And, ok, it's the first major change in that since the codex started to replace the scroll in the 4th Christian century – this technicism stuff is easy to fall in with.) And Charlotte's application isn't going to make the tourist a citizen of the world but it will immeasurably improve their experience of travel. [Brian Winston on i-Docs 2012. Wikipedia link added by FSFF ! :)]
Like Brian Winston in the last of the above quotations, Film Studies For Free (an ever-upbeat Cassandra) has seen the future: it comes on little screens!!
OK, so maybe that's not such an original (or all-encompassing) prophesy. But FSFF really has seen a remarkable, and original, slice of the future of 'pervasive' and 'locative', mobile Film Studies.
The little screens in question here, with their "virtual-experience-design", are very much attached (in this particular project) to a very memorable, big screen, in three dimensions, with its associated history and real-world experiences.
The Curzon Memories App, the beautifully designed outcome of an innovative research project by Charlotte Crofts, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Video Production at the University of the West of England, provides a "locative media experience" designed to enhance visits to the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, and its 'Living History' collection of cinema technology, through "context-aware oral history and dramatisation".
The above video sets out brilliantly the scope and functionality of the app. FSFF's favourite-sounding element is Projection Hero, a "miniature cinema installation which you can manipulate with your phone - open the curtains, dim the lights and play the movies - including the infamous Pearl and Dean 'Asteroid' theme and poignant interviews with retired projectionists". It looks forward to trying this out in the cinema itself.
The App is free. Just click on the relevant link, below, to access and download it. It's very much worthy of your exploration and support, even if you live nowhere near Clevedon - a lovely, little, English town not far from which FSFF's author happened to grow up, and in which she was forever traumatised by X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes...
If you like it, please take time to rate it, and leave an appreciative comment, too, at the digital store of your choice.
The further links below will take you to much more information about, as well as research consideration of, this wonderful project and will also tell you all about Crofts' latest, innovative, project.
- The free Curzon Memories App is now out on Google Android and iPhone.
- The Curzon Memories Project research blog
- Charlotte Crofts, 'Technologies of Seeing the Past: The Curzon Memories App', Paper published in the proceedings of the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London 2011
- Charlotte Crofts' videoed presentation about the "Curzon Memories App" at Postdigital Encounters: Creativity and Improvisation, Journal of Media Practice Annual Symposium, 24 June 2011, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK.
- Charlotte Crofts, 'Geo-spatial and Geo-temporal. The Curzon Memories App documentary, The Curzon Memories App, and City Strata: The Cinemap Layer', slide presentation and document transcript, presentation at i-docs 2012
- City Strata: The Cinemap Layer Project


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Algorithms in conceptual writing
With Fernando Diaz
Back in February, when I started this column, I wanted to interview Fernando Diaz about his sound art projects and also — because he's a computer scientist — about algorithms in poetry. The word "algorithm" appears often in critical analyses of conceptual writing, so I had been wondering what, if anything, conceptual writing and algorithms had to do with each other. I wanted to believe, but Fernando was skeptical about this metaphor. After 2.5 months of meeting, discussing, questioning, and haggling, we have only just begun to work through the chasm between our fields, our different values, histories, vocabularies, etc. Latour would be proud. It's been challenging and fun. And I'm grateful for Fernando's patience, generosity, and humor in working with me towards this provisional document.


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Jerry Seinfeld recently made some pretty bold and unpolitically correct statements surrounding race and gender in comedy and one Black comedienne, Nicole Byer is not having it!
During an interview for the BuzzFeed Brews series, BuzzFeed's Peter Lauria nervously told Seinfeld "I have noticed that most of the guests are mostly White males." Then Lauria went on to confront Seinfeld about his White-heavy web series, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.
"Of twenty-two episodes…" Lauria was cut off by Seinfeld saying, "Yeah, let's get into that! Take a look around, Peter. What do you see? A lotta whitey! What's going on here?" Seinfeld then went in on Lauria's inquiry about his show and he let it be known that this has been something that's bugged him for a long time.
"Oh, this really pisses me off. People think it's the census or something? Does this [have to] represent the actual pie chart of America? Who cares? Funny is the world I live in. If you're funny, I'm interested. If you're not funny, I'm not interested. And I have no interest in race or gender or anything like that, but everyone else is calculating–is this the exact, right mix? It's anti-comedy. It's more about PC nonsense, than are you making us laugh or not?"
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So there's been no women, no people of color Seinfeld's found "funny" enough to be in his web series or to be "interested" in? Black comedienne, Nicole Byer of "Girl Code" fame took to her Tumblr page to set Seinfeld straight on his lack of diversity:
YES JERRY YES! FINALLY! Diversity doesn't matter in comedy or anywhere else in the world. The entertainment world shouldn't reflect the real world.
What a fucking weird thing to say that you don't care about diversity. Why wouldn't you want to enrich your comedy by having a different point of view to make your comedy better? I think funny to Jerry is white… I think I would be less offended if he straight up just said I have white people on my silly web series because I like white people my comedy is for white people and I AM WHITE PEOPLE! Then put on his hood and yelled WHITE POWER and burned a cross on stage. JK if he did the last part I might be offended… but not really. Theres no shame in liking what you like. Like that Duck Dynasty dude saying he doesn't like gays… well cool, now I never have to watch a show that I've never had an interest in watching. Know what I mean? This is the same… I've never seen a full episode of Seinfeld and I doubt I will… his funny isn't my cup of vodka.
I do think the funniest person should get recognition/work/whatever but as a minority its hard. Very hard… partly because no one is really looking for your story. Sure there were a bunch of black people movies this year… but where were the hispanic movies? The Asian movies? The hungarian american movies? UGH I COULD GO ON ALL DAY ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT AND RACE. However I will end on this… the race problem in america will be solved when there are more JLo movies.
Even though Nicole's post is littered in comedic one-liners, she has a very strong point. Diversity does indeed matter in comedy and Seinfeld's white bread view on what's funny is limited and he doesn't want to admit that it is. When two Black writers and a new Black female cast member are added to the "SNL" team and that becomes major news, there's something wrong here. Comedy, just like life, is all about diversity.
Why, in 2014, are we still fighting to prove that diversity is needed everywhere. For God's sakes, it's the world we live in!
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On October 10th of 1983, our family rolled into the sleepy, little logging town of Bend, Oregon. A strong inversion layer pushed thick wood-stove smoke close to the ground and I was introduced to an element of Central Oregon weather that I wouldn't fully understand or use until years later.
Cheryl and I had our three young daughters with us and would add a fourth several years later. We discovered what a great place Bend was to raise a family, but at the time, it was an equally difficult place to make a living. I was fortunate to have been hired by Beaver Coaches as their Warranty Administrator. Bend was at the beginning steps of recovery from a severe recession and making a living superseded developing a career.
After four years in the U.S. Navy (Aviation Electricians Mate…Viet Nam era) I met Cheryl while working for a college ministry, Collegiate Encounter With Christ. We started our family and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where I entered the world of recreational vehicle sales and service.
After four years there and eight years with Beaver, a more serious pursuit of a career, not just a job, began. I had been a public speaker for years and secretly hoped for a job where I could speak for a living.
A unique chain of events carried me back to college (COCC) and a job as a waiter in a casual fine-dining restaurant at the age of forty-five. I was introduced to working as talent in commercials by a co-worker that was doing the same.
A couple of years of making commercials opened the door for a successful audition as the weathercaster on the live morning news program. A short while later, I transferred to Mississippi State University, completed my meteorology training, and I am now celebrating years "in the business" and on NewsChannel 21 at Sunrise.
My life-long love of television and my desire to "speak for a living" have been married up, and I now have the job of my dreams!
In addition to being the Chief Meteorologist for our family of stations, I also have the privilege of serving as the Community Affairs Director. Through meteorology, 21 Cares For Kids and the work of several non-profit organizations, I have the privilege of serving the Central Oregon community in ways I never before thought possible.
Cheryl and I have lived in Central Oregon for over 35 years. We take every opportunity we can get to hike and kayak. We now have grandchildren the ages our children were when we moved here. This is our home. I am honored that through our church, several organizations and my work here at NewsChannel 21, our "family" has grown to thousands. Thank you so much.


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Are you protecting yourself from getting hacked? Think you're not at risk? According to a recent Norton cybercrime report, 431 million adults in 24 countries experienced some type of cybercrime over the past year, which is up 3 percent from the 2010 study. (The top three cybercrimes, according to the study, are viruses or malware, online credit card fraud, and phishing - or e-mail scams.) In the United States, that comes to 141 victims per minute.
"Our study found over 41 percent of us don't have software security," said Helen Malani, Norton's consumer cybercrime expert. "There's a general apathy about it - a disconnect. Three times as many people have been the victim of online crimes, but yet they are more afraid that they will be robbed on the street."
According to the study, over the past year the United States' total bill for cybercrime topped $139 billion.
"We were astounded by the costs in terms of cash lost," Malani said. "The number came to more than $388 billion globally. That's more than the illegal drugs market in heroin, cocaine and marijuana. Cybercrime is an illegal underground economy and it needs to be taken seriously."
Men are more at risk than women, Malani said, because the adult sites they frequent are more susceptible to cybercrimes. (The Norton report says men are four times more likely than women to view adult content online, and they are twice as likely to visit gambling sites.) Another concern, she said, is the rise in cybercrimes from our mobile devices.
"Mobile crimes are up 10 percent globally," Malani said. "And if you are male, a millennial and mobile, you are the most at risk. Men spend more time online than women. They talk to more strangers online. They visit sites that are more risky, like gaming or adult sites. And the millennials use social networks more often so that is fertile ground for spreading malware."
Here are some of Malani's tips for protecting yourself from cybercrime.
Don't ignore software updates. "Many times the notice for an update will pop up on your computer screen, and people close it out and never go back to it," she said. "It won't take that long, and if you keep putting it off, you could be putting yourself at risk."
Don't share too much onTwitter or Facebook. "Don't say the names of your pets or your kids if those are what you use as your passwords," Malani said. "We do leave the breadcrumbs of information about us online without even thinking about it."
Get creative with your passwords and change them frequently. Instead of a dictionary word or a real name, Malani suggested using an acronym of a phrase; IL2G2S could stand for 'I love to go shopping', for example. And be sure to change the passwords often.
"Also, consider answering the security questions with fake answers," she said. "So instead of giving the real name of your pet or child, pick something that's totally false."
Get an app for your mobile device that protects your data. Malani said only 20 percent of those accessing the Internet from their mobile devices have installed the most up-to-date mobile security.
"There are apps that wipe out your personal data if your phone is lost, or can lock your phone remotely," she said. "Having these can definitely put your mind at ease if your phone is lost or stolen."


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MONDAY, Dec. 3, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Not all prolonged seizures permanently hurt children with epilepsy, according to preliminary findings from a long-term follow-up study.
The study included 74 children with epilepsy who underwent an evaluation of brain health and mental skills within 10 years of initial enrollment.
The tests showed that those who had experienced prolonged febrile seizures (convulsions triggered by a fever) were normal, the American and British researchers said.
The study authors said they were surprised to discover that only one child had mesial temporal sclerosis, a type of brain damage that is most common in temporal lobe epilepsy. This suggests that the connection between febrile seizures and this condition is weaker than previously believed.
The study was scheduled for presentation Monday at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society in San Diego.
"We have good reason to be confident that children with childhood status epilepticus can have good long-term outcomes, based on these preliminary results," Dr. Richard Chin, one of the researchers, said in a society news release.
The study team includes researchers from University College London's Institute of Child Health, Young Epilepsy in Lingfield, U.K., Edinburgh University, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H., and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London.
The data and conclusions of research presented at medical meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
More information
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Carat has achieved the # 1 position in RECMA's Global Qualitative Evaluation report. This is the tenth time in the last eleven reports in which Carat has been awarded the number one position. Carat also achieved a 17% gap to the second network.
"This is a brilliant, collective win for the network, demonstrating our differentiated product, strong talent and leadership," said Will Swayne, Carat's Global President.
RECMA published the 16th edition of the global Network Diagnostics – Qualitative Evaluation report covering the period August to December 2017. This report assesses what is happening underneath the top-line billings and new business headlines and looks at the following areas: Competitiveness, Momentum, Specialist Resources and Client Profile.


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28-Nov-2003 -- Traveling east over 2 km from the Kharga Oasis - Asyūṭ highway to this location is very bumpy. You are required to proceed perpendicular to hundreds, perhaps thousands of tank tracks that crisscross the desert.
The tracks run between two small army bases that sandwich the DC one to the north and one to the south. We found this DC to be particularly uninteresting.


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Tablet sales are "crashing," says Best Buy's CEO! IPad sales are sinking fast! Is this the beginning of the end for the tablet?
Easy, there, tiger. Tablets are still popular and sales are growing -- 11% last quarter, to be precise, according to tech consultancy IDC.
Still, that's a far cry from two years ago, when tablets were growing at a 60% clip. Meanwhile, the iPad has been in the doldrums, posting a 9% sales decline last quarter, which was preceded by a 16% slump the quarter before that.
So what's going wrong? There are three big obstacles facing the market that are impacting demand for tablets: Smartphones are getting bigger, tablets last a while and businesses aren't buying them.
Smartphones are getting bigger. Like, seriously huge. Samsung's popular Galaxy S5 has a 5.1-inch screen. Its Galaxy Note smartphone has a 5.5-inch screen, and Apple (AAPL) is expected to release an iPhone 6 of the same size this fall. Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle Fire tablet is just 1.5 inches bigger.
"If you just want to view information, which is really what a tablet is for, now there are mobile phones that are starting to approach the size of a small tablet," said Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst with ZK Research.
Who needs a tablet when you're already carrying one around in your pocket?
Related: IBM to start selling Apple iPhones and iPads
Tablets last a while. Unlike smartphones, there's not much incentive to buy a new tablet every two years.
Most people buy unsubsidized, Wi-Fi-only tablets without a contract from their wireless carrier. And there really isn't that much difference between Apple's new iPad Air and the original iPad that came out four years ago.
"Once you have a tablet of a certain generation, it's not clear that you have to move on to the next generation," Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly told Re/Code.
Businesses aren't buying tablets. PCs are everywhere in corporations, but tablets are harder to come by. Corporate IT departments are notoriously slow at adopting new technologies, and security remains a concern.
But that also means there's a huge growth opportunity.
Apple and IBM announced a partnership earlier this month aimed at solving the corporate tablet problem. Apple will deliver iPads to IBM (IBM), which will load them with industry-specific apps for businesses in the banking, health care, insurance, retail, travel and transportation sectors.
That's why analysts think tablets could get a second wind later this year.
"We believe that stronger commercial demand for tablets in the second half of 2014 will help the market grow," said Jean Philippe Bouchard, IDC's research director for tablets. "We will see more enterprise-specific offerings, as illustrated by the Apple and IBM partnership, come to market."
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The incidence of stroke in the U.S. over the past 50 years has declined, although the severity of stroke has not, according to a study in the December 27 issue of JAMA.
Stroke continues to be a major public health concern, with more than 750,000 new strokes occurring each year in the United States. It is the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer and the leading neurologic cause of long-term disability, according to background information in the article. Prior estimates of long-term trends in the incidence and severity of stroke have varied. Determining trends could help guide health programs, public policy, and the allocation of research funding.
Raphael Carandang, M.D., of Boston University, and colleagues examined data from the Framingham Study (health study, with participants initially recruited in 1948) to determine long-term trends in the incidence, lifetime risk, severity, and 30-day risk of death from clinical stroke. This study included 9,152 Framingham Study original participants and offspring undergoing follow-up for up to 50 years over three consecutive time-periods (1950-1977, 1978-1989, and 1990-2004), with ascertainment of stroke risk factor data every 2 years and active surveillance for occurrence of stroke or death.
The researchers found that the age-adjusted annual incidence of clinical stroke and atherothrombotic brain infarctions (ABI) in participants age 55 to 94 years decreased over the 3 periods. The incidence of clinical stroke decreased significantly. Across the 3 periods, the lifetime risk of clinical stroke (by age 90 years) decreased from 19.5 percent to 14.5 percent in men age 65 years and from 18.0 percent to 16.1 percent in women. Age-adjusted stroke severity did not vary across periods; however, death within 30 days of stroke decreased significantly in men (from 23 percent to 14 percent) but not significantly in women (from 21 percent to 20 percent).
"The severity of stroke has not decreased and 30-day mortality has decreased significantly only in men, perhaps due to an older age at onset of stroke and more severe strokes in women. These sobering trends emphasize that while improved control of risk factors has lowered incidence of stroke, there is a need for greater primary prevention efforts to reduce the lifetime risk, severity, and 30-day mortality following stroke," the authors conclude.
Source : JAMA and Archives Journals


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On this date in 1661, Presbyterian lord Archibald Campbell, the first Marquess of Argyll, lost his head at Edinburgh.
Once a privy councilor to King Charles I, "Red Argyll" had been in the 1640s a great champion of Scottish national liberty and a leader of the Presbyterians in the many-sided wars that tore apart the British Isles.
Scotland's Presbyterians — who favored bottom-up church governance as opposed to the crown-controlled selection of bishops that's known as episcopacy — made an initial alliance with English Parliamentarians to support one another in their mutual hostilities with King Charles I. And in Scotland's civil war in the mid-1640s, Argyll's Presbyterians defeated the Earl of Montrose's royalists.
But the failure of Oliver Cromwell's similarly victorious Parliament to deliver on its covenant fractured the Presbyterian party and drove Argyll to the political sideline.
Argyll's own opposition to other Presbyterians' attempted engagement with the imprisoned Charles I became untenable when, to the horror of his countrymen, Charles was beheaded by Parliament. As his entry in the Dictionary of National Biography notes, Charles's execution "completely upset his calculations, which had all along been founded on a close union between the parliaments of Scotland and of England … the results of his safe and prudent policy were ruthlessly annihilated … [and] Argyll lost his presence of mind, and therefore his control of events in this stupendous conjuncture, and became as much a puppet in the hands of contending factions as was Charles II." His growing ranks of foes derisively nicknamed him the "Glaed-Eyed Marquis", attributing an obvious metaphorical import to his imperfect eyesight.
"Myself encountered so many difficulties that all remedies that were applied had the quite contrary operation," he later wrote of those years when his influence waned. "[I was] a distracted man of a distracted subject in a distracted time wherein I lived." It did not wane all at once: Argyll had the honor of crowning King Charles II at Scone on the first of January, 1651, and even tested the king with dynastic marriage inquiries for his daughter. (No dice.)
But as events ran away from him he fell into debt, disgrace, and irrelevancy.
When Charles II resumed the throne in 1660, Argyll presented himself at the court of his would-be father-in-law, and was surprised to find himself immediately thrown in the Tower. Like the Presbyterian cause itself, he was permanently and tragically alienated from both factions of the English Civil War: Cromwell always suspected Argyll a royalist for that whole crowning-the-king thing, and Charles always resented Argyll for his part in the destruction of his father.
The Glaed-Eyed Marquis found himself shipped off to Edinburgh to stand trial for treason. Although records of the trial are lost, it's said that he was on the verge of total acquittal when Cromwell's former commander in Scotland, George Monck, delivered a packet of incriminating letters. This story might be apocryphal but Argyll lost his head all the same, on Edinburgh's distinctive Maiden.
Peruse here Argyll's tart and downright comical last will and testament, satirizing many of the surviving figures of the day and bidding his heirs to lay his body "so shallow, that at the next trump of sedition, it may by the same raise-devil directory [i.e., Parliament] be conjured up again, and meet my exalted head, that bound-mark of Presbytery, its ne plus ultra, 'Hitherto shall you go and no further.'"
Memorial to Archibald Campbell in Edinburgh's St Giles' Cathedral with the epitaph "I set the Crown on the King's Head. He hastens me to a better Crown than his own." (cc) image from Kim Traynor.
Argyll's son and heir, also named Archibald Campbell, was himself executed in 1685 for organizing a Scottish "Argyll's Rising" against King James II in alliance with the Duke of Monmouth. Their descendants still maintain the rank of Duke of Argyll to this day.
On this day..
- 1780: Johann Heinrich Waser, persecuted whistleblower - 2020
- 1919: Frank Willis, but not by Bill Fisk - 2019
- 1791: Thomas Mount of the Flash Company - 2017
- 2013: Orelesitse Thokamolelo, bad in-law - 2016
- 1925: The Sveta Nedelya bombers - 2015
- 1994: Charles Rodman Campbell, hanged in Washington - 2014
- 1541: Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury - 2013
- 1776: Benjamin Harley and Thomas Henman, Smugglerius? - 2012
- 1941: Mirjam Sara P., T4 victim - 2011
- 1797: Gracchus Babeuf, for the Conspiracy of Equals - 2010
- 1525: Thomas Müntzer, prophet of the Peasants' War - 2009
- 1610: Francois Ravaillac, because Paris was worth more than a mass - 2008


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It has been a very difficult decision, but we have decided that it is in the best interest of our communities, our teams, and our patients that we not see regular patients until further notice.
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Sounds like a lot of contemporary foundries...Craig Eliason said:For example, letters by lazy wood-type creators who convince themselves that the artifacts of a router are an aesthetic decision
Nice piece. I've long been a fan of Selene (originally called Armstrong, both names a reference to the lunar landing). BTW did Delia come before De Macchi's similar work?Antonio Cavedoni said:
More style than function, no? The oldest such instance I know of (thanks to JFP) being FF Bradlo.Luke Freeman said:
Make that four.Out of curiosity: the three of you who did a "Vote Down" on my second post, did you actually read the text in the image @Stephen Coles posted?


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Morrisons recall beans which may contain pieces of metal
Morrisons have recalled certain batches of its beans because they may contain small pieces of metal.
The 170g packs of Trimmed Beans have 'Display until' dates of 22 April 2017, 23 April 2017 and 24 April 2017, so it is possible that shoppers could still have unused packs stored at home.
Morrisons said: "If you have bought the above product do not eat it. Instead, return it to the store from where it was bought for a full refund."